My goals don’t work! (You Have a Big But)Why, when I set a goal to get rid of something like my fat belly, do I just get more belly? The answer to your question is that you may be literally creating what you don’t want by un-creating your goal with the word BUT.

We had a woman who was working with The Guardian Code System to deal with health issues one of which was an alarming increase in her weight and particularly of belly fat. In her youth she had been quite athletic and she had been very comfortable with her naturally well shaped and conditioned body. She had developed some health issues and among other things began to gain weight in the form of pronounced increases in belly fat. She complained that the goal she had set for reducing her weight was not working.She was taking her pills and remedies regularly BUT she was gaining more weight. She was sticking religiously to what should’ve been a good weight loss diet BUT the scales proved every day she still had a serious problem. She was also careful to have written her goal clearly and was daydreaming it every day with positive strong emotions BUT she continued to look and feel worse every day. She found it more and more difficult to “feel” excited and happy with her daydream of slim and trim when the mirror said “BUT nothing is happening”.

If our thoughts, feelings and words literally create our conditions and our lives then here is what is happening. If the goal that we desire requires us to focus totally on the desired outcome and never on the fear or question that it might not occur what happens to our goal when we say “BUT it’s not happening”? “It’s not happening” becomes the “goal” or outcome that is being created (felt strongly about).When you set a goal, in this case weight loss, you focus your thoughts feelings and words on the outcome that you desire. If you get up in the morning and weigh yourself, look in the mirror and try to find evidence of whether anything is happening what are you focusing on?

You are focused on whether your goal will be reached, not the outcome that has already been achieved. Every time you look in the mirror, weigh yourself or say the words I don’t see anything yet, you literally un-create your focus on the outcome as having already occurred.

When you follow your statement of a goal as having been already achieved with the word BUT you just told yourself and the universe that your belief in your goal was a lie.

When you set a goal to achieve your positive outcome and then you spend your time all day when the problem comes to mind saying to yourself “BUT my problem is still here and I hate it” your real problem is that your “BUT” is In your way.​Good Stuff To YaSteve Shenk – your guide through The Guardian Code.

Hopeless Or Happy? What Have You Got to Lose?What and how we think gives us control over whether we are hopeless or happy in our lives.* The way it works is that we imagine an outcome that we want or worry that might occur, and then we either daydream or worry about that outcome which draws (attracts) to us the circumstances, people, and things (teachers, in Guardian Code language) which bring about that outcome. If you study any self-improvement philosophy, at some point they will always talk about ideas like: “thoughts are things”, “what you get is what you think about most of the time”, “what you can believe is what you can achieve” and the summary of all of these concepts, “as a man thinketh, so shall he become”. Here’s the question. What happens if we think depression, worry, fear, discouragement and even see a friend who died recently as the lucky one to get out of “this mess”. If in fact every thought does create, what are we going to get? I have got to remember Job, from the Old Testament who was sitting there after having lost his family, his wealth, and everything including his health, making the statement that “the things that I have feared have come upon me”. Here is another question. What if you didn’t think about what you don’t want? What would you be missing? If you’re facing a problem and you worry about it and get discouraged is that what solved the problem? No. If you stopped at the hopeless, discouraged point in your thinking you would have just quit. (In effect, committing suicide and checked out with regard to that particular problem.) But! If you have ever moved past the worry and fear to find a solution to a problem you have experienced the greatest achievement in taking control of the rest of your magnificent life. Even though you went through a bunch of misery to get there at some point you imagined the outcome that you wanted and the circumstances in your life were then forced to bring you the solution to your problem. This means that none of the misery that you went through fixed the problem. Only when you decided not to quit and you chose the outcome of finding a solution, did the problem get solved. Here’s another question for you. What if, when a problem, a frustration, a fear, a worry, or a discouragement comes up and bashes you in the mouth, you “choose” to decide immediately the outcome that would make you happy and focused your thinking totally on the joy of experiencing only that outcome? Think about it. If in the past you have ever found a solution to a problem, it was by eventually getting over the misery and self-recrimination and finally deciding the outcome wanted that solved the problem. So here is my final question. What Have You Got to Lose? What if when there is an “unhappy” in your life, you skip all of the fear, discouragement, worry and “not happy” and go straight to the outcome that would make you happy. I just showed you that nothing but misery comes from letting yourself think and rethink the unhappiness of the potentially miserable future.What have you got to lose? Absolutely nothing. Unless you’re going to give up, quit and essentially declare yourself dead to the problem, you’re eventually going to get around to perfectly applying the Guardian C ode* and solving the problem. You might just as well skip the misery and go straight to where you want to end up anyway. So, you got a worry? A fear? A discouragement? Decide the outcome that will make you happy. Write that outcome down in detail as though it had already occurred. Thankfully daydream that outcome regularly. Appreciate the “teachers” who appear to help you toward your goal. Understand that you have proven that you have the power to apply The Guardian Code in every part of the magnificent, charmed life that you deserve. Skip the misery! After all, What Have You Got to Lose? Please always remember that “my job as your guide is to eliminate my job as your guide”. * Those of you who have an understanding of “The Guardian Code” know that the simple concept is that there is a formula by which each of us accomplishes everything in our lives, whether it be success or failure.Until next time, may you have the peaceful and charmed life that you deserve.

In Your Heart of Hearts Your WonderfulHopeless and Helpless? Never Again!!What if there is a formula, a code as it were that unlocks your abundance of money, happiness, security, and health that you were born to enjoy? In your heart of hearts you know your life should be happy, hopeful and exciting. If you didn’t know that it wouldn’t be so worrisome that all is not as wonderful as it “should” be.In the book It’s Not Your Fault the following discussion takes place between The Guardian (the teacher) and Michael (representing all of us is the student).(The Guardian) “If a person truly believes he can achieve something, nothing will stop him. A lot of the greatest achievements of mankind have been accomplished by people who didn’t have a clue that what they were attempting to do was considered impossible. Besides, at some level, people already sense that they should be perfect. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t be disappointed in themselves for not meeting their own expectations. They already feel that they should be happy, should be successful, should be healthy, should be intelligent and should be able to handle any situation that comes their way.”“That’s quite a bundle of shoulds,” Michael observed.“Exactly!” The Guardian agreed. “And you’ll notice that every one of the shoulds I just mentioned are subjects that people feel guilty about. Michael, I have one question for you: If you didn’t think that success should be your natural state then why on earth would you feel guilty for not achieving it?“If you didn’t believe that health is your natural state, why would you get angry with yourself (Guilty) for getting sick? If you didn’t think that you should be able to fix problems before they happen, why does it make you so upset (Guilty) to face them?”Chapter 3 of It’s Not Your Fault goes on to make a major point of the fact that we experience hopelessness and helplessness as a result of not knowing what to do. At the same time the frustration from the two “H” words stems from actually feeling guilty from “shoulding” on ourselves for not knowing the answers.Remember the formula, or Code, I mentioned at the beginning of this little commentary? The answers for you to never having to feel hopeless or helpless again are there and have been used by everyone to achieve anything forever. But!! You already know and are using the formula (Code) every day. All you need is a guide to show you how to use it to create what you deserve in your life and leave the worry, fear and lack (not enough) where it belongs. In the past!So here’s your assignment, should you choose to accept it.

1. Pick a worry, frustration or fear that you would like to eliminate from your life.

2. Decide the outcome that you would like.

3. Write it down as though it has already occurred. Writing literally moves the goal from thought to a physical existence on paper.

4. Read and daydream that outcome in full emotional and physical detail when you first get up in the morning and just before you go to bed at night. (For an extra boost express gratitude for its having been achieved.) Daydreaming the desired outcome is the repeated affirmation of the positive outcome. There is a law stated by Buddha, and later by many other teachers, that “when the student is ready the teacher appears”. By pleasantly daydreaming the outcome without the interference of worrying how you can make it happen you state your readiness to be teachable and the teachers are required to appear.

The teachers might be people, a book, an idle comment by a friend, a TV show or various circumstances that occur. Very often, nothing new comes into your environment but your awareness is enhanced, by the steps you have taken in “The Guardian Code”, and appears to be the attraction of the teachers that ultimately bring your desired outcome.

Note: This awareness is similar to driving the car you just bought off the sales lot and noticing how many cars just like yours everyone seems to be driving. Those cars were out there yesterday; you just had not yet become attuned to them. 5. Finally: Make yourself accountable to you every night with a brief journal entry indicating that you have read and daydreamed your goals twice that day. Also record any positive thoughts or experiences that moves you toward your desired outcome. (Notice what a relief it is that your only task is to daydream the outcome desired. Being free from worry over how to make it happen is truly wonderful.)

Until next time, may you have the peaceful and charmed life that you deserve.

Hope is defined as a feeling of expectations and desire for certain things to happen. Without hope we are often left with feelings of despair and hopelessness.If you had the formula and resources to overcome these negative feelings would you take advantage of it?Would you want to know more?The formula I am referring to is called “The Guardian Code”.“The Guardian Code” teaches us the formula and step-by-step methods to achieve the life we desire.An important part of this formula is the Law of Attraction.There has been a great deal of interest for quite some time in the Law of attraction.An oversimplification of this well proven concept is that when you set a goal, keep your positive attention focused on it’s realization and continue to repeat affirmations of its favorable outcome and the necessary events circumstances and people will be attracted to you. Ultimately bringing to pass the manifestation of the intended outcome in your life.This concept has had an extensive goal achievement following develop around it. There is good reason. It works. However, here is an exciting fact. As stated in the above title to this blog, “there’s more”. The law of attraction is actually part of “The Guardian Code”, which is the formula for achieving everything in our lives. The law of attraction works with and is sustained by other very important laws. Understanding these other laws will explain how and why the law of attraction works and will definitely make you able to more effectively achieve your goals.So as you can see the Law of Attraction is a wonderful principal by which your goals can be achieved. However, if you put it in its true context as it connects with the other magnificent universal laws that make up “The Guardian Code” formula, its power is increased immeasurably.Remember that I’ve said that “The Guardian Code” is used to accomplish anything in everyone’s life. Every one of us practices it every waking hour. Another rule is that if you can worry you already know how to succeed in using “The Guardian Code”.So here’s your assignment, should you choose to accept it.1.Pick a worry, frustration or fear that you would like to eliminate from your life.2.Decide the outcome that you would like.3.Write it down as though it has already occurred. Writing literally moves the goal from thought to a physical existence on paper.4.Read and daydream that outcome in full emotional and physical detail when you first get up in the morning and just before you go to bed at night. (For an extra boost express gratitude for its having been achieved.)Daydreaming the desired outcome is the repeated affirmation of the positive outcome. There is a law stated by Buddha, and later by many other teachers, that “when the student is ready the teacher appears”. By pleasantly daydreaming the outcome without the interference of worrying how you can make it happen you state your readiness to be teachable and the teachers are required to appear.The teachers might be people, a book, an idle comment by a friend, a TV show or various circumstances that occur. Very often, nothing new comes into your environment but your awareness is enhanced, by the steps you have taken in “The Guardian Code”, and appears to be the attraction of the teachers that ultimately bring your desired outcome.Note: This awareness is similar to driving the car you just bought off the sales lot and noticing how many cars just like yours everyone seems to be driving. Those cars were out there yesterday; you just had not yet become attuned to them.5.Finally: Make yourself accountable to you every night with a brief journal entry indicating that you have read and daydreamed your goals twice that day.Also record any positive thoughts or experiences that moves you toward your desired outcome. (Notice what a relief it is that your only task is to daydream the outcome desired. Being free from worry over how to make it happen is truly wonderful.)Until next time, may you have the peaceful and charmed life that you deserve.Steve Shenk

I invite you to take part in the neighborhood of the Guardian code. We all have “stuff” in our lives. We’re faced with challenges concerning money, health, worry and fear, along with troubled relationships. But more important we have hopes, needs, desires and glorious, magical dreams to make come true.

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